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Let's make some predictions regarding the Ashes in 2009, so they can be bumped, revisited and (probably) laughed at when the series comes around.

Starting Line Ups for the First Test

Strauss
Cook
Bell
Pietersen
Joyce
Flintoff*
Foster+
Broad
Panesar
Hoggard
Anderson

Hayden
Jacques
Ponting*
Hussey
Clarke
Voges
Haddin+
Clark
Johnson
MacGill
Tait

Top Run Scorers

Eng: Pietersen
Aus: Hussey

Top Wicket Takers

Eng: Anderson
Aus: Tait

Result

2-2 draw, Australia retains the Ashes with a narrow win at the Oval to level the series